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2015 Map of Broadwell

Name: 2015 Topographic Map of Broadwell
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2015
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2015

About this map

Elkhart Hill dominates the southwestern corner of this Logan County landscape, providing a rare topographic rise in the Central Illinois prairie. The village of Elkhart sits at its base, where the historic route of Old Rt 66 and modern interstate corridors parallel the rail lines that once drove the local agricultural economy. To the north, the small settlement of Broadwell is laid out on a traditional grid, including streets like E Pine St and E Oak St, serving as a waypoint between the county's larger hubs.

Waterways like Salt Creek and Lake Fork carve winding paths through the agricultural sections, bridged by structures such as the Rocky Ford Bridge. For genealogists and local historians, the map is remarkably dense with family-named burial sites, including the Latham Thompson Cem, Braucher Cem, and Warrick Cem, offering a clear record of the area's early landowning families and rural congregations.